Jonny Rhea
Engineer at Ethereum Foundation
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonny Rhea is an experienced engineer and technical leader with 11 years building distributed systems, cryptography-forward products, and simulation software across aviation, finance, and blockchain. He led protocol engineering for Ethereum 2.0 at ConsenSys, co-founded and served as CTO of DELV (Element Finance), and now works on Ethereum R&D at the Ethereum Foundation, blending research-driven thinking with product delivery. Early career roles at Bell Helicopter gave him deep control-systems and simulation expertise, while a stint as Lead Data Scientist at USAA added applied ML and exploratory blockchain solutions to his toolkit. A contributor to the widely used Teku Ethereum client, he has a track record of creating foundational architecture and pub/sub systems that enable future feature growth. Based in Texas, he pairs an MS in Operations Research and a BS in Math & CS with a habit of moving between high-assurance systems and startup velocity.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Operations Research, M.S. Operations Research at Southern Methodist UniversityB.S. Mathematics and Computer Science, B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science at University of North Texas
Github Skills (5)
javas10
eventbus10
java10
blockchain9
ethereum9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Consensys/teku
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019
🚀 Open-source Ethereum consensus client written in Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 200 commits, 426 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jonny primarily focused on adding foundational components to the project, writing skeleton classes and a main method, which included setting up basic classes and a main method for the project. They also implemented a pubsub event system to allow for communication and interaction between different components. The user made critical contributions to the project's underlying structure by creating a framework for future development. Their work also involved setting up the foundation for the project's core logic.
consensusethereumjavaconsensysbeacon-chain
arithm3tica/arithmetica
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Arithmetica is a reusable platform to democratize the computation and data availability of computational math problems.
Contributions:1 release, 163 commits, 1 PR in 4 months
computationmathavailabilitycomputer-algebra-systemmathematics
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